Threadripper L3 CPUID Strangeness: Difference between revisions

and to a great deal of misery and frustration, and daydreams of becoming a stripper because you sure as shit don't want to be a programmer. writing this is about as fun as bobbing for apples in an skinsearing hot metal washbucket of curdling possum smeg. every time a new [[Architecture|microarchitecture]] employed a different cache size, thus mandating a new [[CPUID]] number, your discovery failed. in fact, my very first PR at GOOG was to add descriptors for whatever rhodium-crusted CapEx-demolishing Xeons we were fielding, as apparently 70,000 engineers had until then been content to just read "Couldn't discover cache size for processor type FOO!" twice in their logs every time they ran a binary before bitching on ''eng-misc'' for six hours or [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/technology/google-employees-union.html cosplaying a union]. perhaps it was lost in the 400KB of messages about your 1.4GB HelloWorld <tt>go</tt> binary failing to elect a  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science) paxos] leader. google-sized problems, baybee!

dogs fucked the Pope; no fault of mine! now hardware architects can do some very strange things, and indeed I saw an Intel i7 of the broadwell era with a twice-cursed 6-way TLB, and the 96KB L2 of the Alpha 21164 was famously ''associativé à trois'', as befitted the carefree California culture of the mid-90s. tupac was still alive (doing 187s), big pete wilson was governing (proposing 187s), and the homeless were conveniently hidden behind piles of AOL install media (each man, woman, and child on earth had approximately 187 AOL cds). I once mailed Yale Patt about the 3-way associativity, and he responded with twelve pages of baseball stats descending into a challenge of pistols at dawn. "ps I'll predict your branches you brain-dead ass-eyed Atlanta son of a bitch pps send nudes" but i digress. anyway, however (justifiably) [https://media1.tenor.com/images/a6a9150a7d8fd5a7cbbd0112a641c4d1/tenor.gif?itemid=14477035 drunk with dankness] the AMD boys are, i very much doubt Dr. Lisa "the Su is for Superwoman" Su is letting enneadic caches out the door.